Thread: The Bad History Behind ’You Didn’t Build That’

The Bad History Behind

Although his supporters pooh-pooh the controversy, claiming the statement has been taken out of context and that he was referring only to public infrastructure, the full video isn’t reassuring. Whatever the meaning of “that” was, the president on the whole was clearly trying to take business owners down a peg. He was dissing their accomplishments. As my Bloomberg View colleague Josh Barro has written, “You don’t have to make over $250,000 a year to be annoyed when the president mocks people for taking credit for their achievements.”

If the issue that most people care about is social equality and dignity rather than just monetary equality then the President's speech clearly presses the wrong buttons. Most Americans are comfortable with the fact that other people make more money than they do, but they regard themselves as just as good as those people. This is a key feature of American culture, different from other Western nations, as any visitor to France or England can see. To mock their accomplishments is to attack the very thing from which many of them draw their self regard and to say that they have no right to be proud of what they have made of themselves.

Originally Posted by LowDown

The Bad History Behind



If the issue that most people care about is social equality and dignity rather than just monetary equality then the President's speech clearly presses the wrong buttons. Most Americans are comfortable with the fact that other people make more money than they do, but they regard themselves as just as good as those people. This is a key feature of American culture, different from other Western nations, as any visitor to France or England can see. To mock their accomplishments is to attack the very thing from which many of them draw their self regard and to say that they have no right to be proud of what they have made of themselves.

There are many who continue to deny that he was belittling business owners. But he was. Indeed, he was.

To state the truth is proper, even when some want to believe the lie. Nothing here changes the FACT that Obama was not insulting anyone. Context is important, and I do wish more would learn to understand context.

So an article that only takes a look of 1/4th of the claim? Can the article look at the whole context of the claim? No it cannot, because the article is a bunch of bs.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

Nothing here changes the FACT that Obama was not insulting anyone.

Nothing you continue to bleat over and over and over again changes the FACT that many, many, many were insulted. And yes, they understood the full context. The full context made it worse.

You can continue to try to build a wall of denial, but it continues to be, as you say, "FACT."

Originally Posted by Harshaw

Nothing you continue to bleat over and over and over again changes the FACT that many, many, many were insulted. And yes, they understood the full context. The full context made it worse.

You can continue to try to build a wall of denial, but it continues to be, as you say, "FACT."

Claiming that you got some help along the way from other people building roads and bridges etc is "worse"?

Originally Posted by Harshaw

Nothing you continue to bleat over and over and over again changes the FACT that many, many, many were insulted. And yes, they understood the full context. The full context made it worse.

You can continue to try to build a wall of denial, but it continues to be, as you say, "FACT."

Fake insulted you mean. First, they were lied to. Told what Obama really meant, by those who are among the most dishonest (politicians and political entertainers). because your side has no argument, you rely on lies. That's all one can conclude from this silliness.

Originally Posted by TheDemSocialist

Claiming that you got some help along the way from other people building roads and bridges etc is "worse"?

I see. You don't mind limiting context as long is it's expanded just far enough for your purposes, though still not fully.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

Fake insulted you mean. First, they were lied to. Told what Obama really meant, by those who are among the most dishonest (politicians and political entertainers). because your side has no argument, you rely on lies. That's all one can conclude from this silliness.

No, that's merely all YOU conclude.

Originally Posted by Boo Radley

To state the truth is proper, even when some want to believe the lie. Nothing here changes the FACT that Obama was not insulting anyone. Context is important, and I do wish more would learn to understand context.

And with the freedoms we currently enjoy in this country, you are entitled to that opinion.
All of Obama's words and actions point to his idea that the state is more important than the people,
that the result of all labor first belongs to the state, and you should be happy with what they allow you to keep.
This idea is just as much a form of slavery, as a plantation.